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AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
Every week, Lucas and Luna sit down at the library table to examine the real-world consequences of artificial intelligence — not the sci-fi futures, but the decisions being coded into systems today. This show is about bias in hiring algorithms that screen out qualified candidates before a human sees a résumé; safety failures in autonomous vehicles that misclassify pedestrians; and the regulatory scramble to define fairness when no one agrees on what 'fair' means. Lucas brings the research: the…
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AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial IntelligenceWhen AI Predicts Your Life Expectancy for Insurance
Episode 49 of AI Ethics with Fexingo explores the controversial use of AI to predict life expectancy for insurance underwriting. Lucas and Luna dissect a 2025…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Assistant Misidentifies Your Accent
Episode 48 of AI Ethics with Fexingo dives into a surprisingly common and deeply frustrating bias: accent misidentification in voice AI. Lucas and Luna explore…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Gives You Wrong Legal Advice
Lucas and Luna dive into a growing but overlooked AI ethics problem: legal AI tools that give confident but wrong answers. They examine a real case from early…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Investment Advisor Has a Hidden Fee
In this episode of AI Ethics with Fexingo, hosts Lucas and Luna explore the hidden fees embedded in AI-powered investment advisors. They break down how…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Landlord Set Eviction Without Human Review
Episode 45 of AI Ethics with Fexingo drills into a real case from this past April: a property management firm in Cleveland used an AI system to flag lease…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Doctor Has a Conflict of Interest
Episode 44 of AI Ethics with Fexingo examines a growing concern in healthcare AI: algorithm developers with financial ties to the treatments their models…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
AI Systems That Predict Your Job Performance Without Your Knowledge
In this episode of AI Ethics with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore the growing use of AI-powered 'people analytics' tools that rank and predict employee…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Professor Grades With Hidden Shortcuts
Episode 42 of AI Ethics with Fexingo examines the growing use of AI grading assistants in college classrooms. Lucas and Luna break down a specific case from…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Chatbot Gives Medical Advice Without a License
Lucas and Luna examine the risks of AI-powered symptom checkers and health chatbots that provide medical advice without regulatory oversight. They focus on a…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Suggests You Break the Law
Episode 40 of AI Ethics with Fexingo: Lucas and Luna explore the legal risks of over-relying on generative AI for professional advice. Using the recent case of…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Interviewer Holds a Grudge
Lucas and Luna examine how AI systems used in hiring and performance reviews can learn from past interactions and hold negative associations against…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Exam Proctor Accuses You of Cheating
Episode 38 of AI Ethics with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna examine the real-world consequences of automated proctoring software used in remote exams. They focus on a…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Recruiter Rejects Based on Your Commute
Episode 37 of AI Ethics with Fexingo explores a hidden bias in hiring algorithms: using estimated commute distance as a proxy for job stability or…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Home Assistant Spies on Your Kids
Episode 36 of AI Ethics digs into the privacy nightmare of smart home devices used for childcare. Lucas and Luna examine a recent incident where a popular…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Insurance Adjuster Denies Your Claim
Episode 35 of AI Ethics with Fexingo dives into the growing use of artificial intelligence in insurance claims processing. Lucas and Luna examine a specific…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Hiring Tool Rejects You Before a Human Sees Your Resume
Episode 34 of AI Ethics with Fexingo investigates the growing practice of automated resume screening—where AI systems reject job applicants before any human…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When AI Decides Your Loan with No Human Appeal
Lucas and Luna explore the growing use of fully automated loan underwriting systems that leave borrowers with no human appeal process. They examine a 2025…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Therapist Has a Hidden Bias
Episode 32 of AI Ethics with Fexingo examines the unregulated world of AI-powered mental health chatbots. Lucas and Luna discuss a recent study finding that…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Landlord Evicts You
Lucas and Luna unpack the growing use of AI in rental housing decisions, focusing on a 2025 class action against a major property management firm accused of…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
How Image Generators Are Trained on Non-Consensual Photos
In this episode, Lucas and Luna examine a troubling aspect of generative AI: the use of non-consensual intimate images in training datasets. They focus on a…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Fitness Coach Recommends Unsafe Workouts
Episode 29 of AI Ethics with Fexingo explores the hidden dangers of AI fitness coaching apps. Lucas and Luna dive into a 2025 study from the University of…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Recruiter Has a Gender Bias Problem
This episode explores how AI hiring tools can inherit and amplify gender bias from historical training data. Lucas and Luna dig into a 2024 study by the EU's…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Paralegal Misses a Key Precedent
Lucas and Luna explore the growing use of AI in legal research and document review, focusing on a 2025 incident where an AI-powered legal assistant failed to…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When AI Recommends Your Medical Treatment Without Clinical Trials
Episode 26 of AI Ethics with Fexingo dives into the growing use of AI systems that recommend medical treatments—like sepsis management or cancer…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When AI Models Police Your Social Media Speech
In episode 25 of AI Ethics with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore the hidden world of AI content moderation on social media platforms. They zoom in on a 2025…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Job Interviewer Has a Hidden Agenda
Episode 24 of AI Ethics with Fexingo investigates the growing use of AI-powered interview analysis tools like HireVue and Retorio. Lucas and Luna dive into a…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
AI Systems That Automatically Reject Your Job Application
Episode 23 of AI Ethics with Fexingo explores the hidden world of applicant tracking systems (ATS) that automatically reject 75% of résumés before a human ever…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
AI That Runs on Your Phone Changes the Privacy Math
Most AI ethics debates assume your data has to leave your device. But a growing number of AI models now run entirely on your phone or laptop — no cloud, no…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Tutor Has No Teaching Degree
Lucas and Luna explore the hidden crisis in AI-powered education: tutoring systems that claim to personalize learning but lack any pedagogical training. They…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Art Teacher Has No Art Degree
This episode examines the rise of AI-generated educational content in art classrooms. Lucas and Luna dig into a case where a school district replaced most of…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Landlord Evicts You
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the growing use of AI in rental housing decisions — from tenant screening to eviction predictions. They focus on the…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When AI Judges Your Parenting Fitness
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the growing use of AI in child welfare assessments, focusing on the Allegheny Family Screening Tool (AFST) in…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Tutor Has No Teaching Degree
This episode of AI Ethics with Fexingo looks at how AI tutoring platforms like Khan Academy's Khanmigo and others are being deployed in classrooms without the…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When AI Recommends Your Sentence
In episode 16 of AI Ethics with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna examine how artificial intelligence is being used to recommend sentencing lengths in criminal courts…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Professor Grades You Invisible
Episode 15 of AI Ethics with Fexingo explores the hidden world of automated grading in higher education. Lucas and Luna unpack a 2025 Stanford study that found…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
The AI System That Decides Your Credit Score
Lucas and Luna investigate how artificial intelligence has quietly taken over consumer credit scoring in the United States, focusing on the case of a 2023…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Insurance Adjuster Denies the Claim
Episode 13 of AI Ethics with Fexingo digs into the growing use of AI in insurance claims processing. Lucas and Luna examine a specific case from May 2026: a…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When AI Decides on Your Bail
In this episode, Lucas and Luna examine how algorithms are increasingly used to set bail amounts and predict flight risk in the U.S. criminal justice system…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Therapist Is Not a Therapist
Episode 11 of AI Ethics with Fexingo examines the unregulated world of AI-powered mental health chatbots. Lucas and Luna dig into the case of a popular app…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When AI Fails the Gig Economy Workforce
Lucas and Luna examine how AI-driven worker management systems in the gig economy create unfair outcomes for drivers and delivery workers. They zero in on a…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
AI Systems That Flag Your Child to Child Protective Services
Episode 9 of AI Ethics with Fexingo examines automated child welfare risk assessment algorithms. Lucas and Luna walk through the Allegheny Family Screening…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
Why Explainable AI Matters for High-Stakes Decisions
Lucas and Luna explore the growing field of explainable AI, focusing on the tension between model accuracy and interpretability. They use the case of LIME and…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When AI Models Are Trained on Your Medical Data
Lucas and Luna explore the ethics of training AI on health records without explicit patient consent. They dive into the case of a major research hospital that…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
AI Transparency Reports Promise More Than They Deliver
Lucas and Luna examine the growing trend of AI transparency reports, which major tech companies like OpenAI, Google, and Meta publish to disclose how their…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
How Synthetic Data Bakes In Hidden Bias
Episode 5 of AI Ethics with Fexingo tackles a next-generation bias problem: training data generated by AI itself. Lucas explains how synthetic data — used to…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
How the EU AI Act Could Reshape Global Tech Regulation
Episode 4 of AI Ethics with Fexingo dives into the European Union's Artificial Intelligence Act, the first comprehensive legal framework for AI. Lucas and Luna…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
The Hospital Algorithm That Fails Black Patients
Lucas and Luna examine a real-world case where a widely used healthcare algorithm, designed to manage chronic disease care, systematically underestimated the…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
The Biased Recruiter Inside Your Job Application
Every year, millions of job applications are filtered by algorithms that claim to be objective. But a 2023 study of Amazon's now-defunct AI recruiting tool…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
The COMPAS Algorithm That Locked People Away
In the premiere episode of AI Ethics with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna launch the show by drilling into a single case: the COMPAS recidivism algorithm used in U.S…